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6 Places You Can Find Writers to Help with Your Blog As much as we'd all like to write posts for our blogs, it's not always that easy. You may find you don't have enough time to dedicate to your blog. Or you may lose your passion for the topic after writing about it for so long. So why not look for another writer who can help you out? Always be on the lookout for people who: Demonstrate knowledge Seem genuine and generous in helping others Communicate well Put themselves out there and look for opportunities Are interesting and different Understand social media and online communication Six places you can find writers for your blog: Guest Posters: If you have published guest posts in the past, take a look at them. How much traffic did they get? What was the quality like? How easy were they to work with? Did they go above and beyond with the post? If one of the guest posters stands out, contact them. Readership/Commenters: Look at the comments people leave on your blog, and contact the writers who know a lot about the topic, are genuinely helpful, and are well written. Commenters/Participants in Other Places: Check out comments people leave in other places, such as other people’s forums and blogs, Facebook pages/groups and podcasts. Magazines/Freelancers: Find people who already create paid content elsewhere, whether it's as a freelancer or on their own blog. Word of Mouth: If you’re looking for someone, put the word out through friends, colleagues, business partners and others. Advertising: Use tips and tricks when looking to hire by advertising on the ProBlogger Job Board. If you’re willing to put a little work into going through the applications, you’ll usually find some gold. Once you've found someone and they agree to help, do a trial run with them to get a sense of what they're like to work with, their content, and how your audience responds to them. Quote of the Day: “If you think hiring professionals is expensive, try hiring amateurs.” - Anonymous Links and Resources for 6 Places to Find Writers to Hire for Your Blog: How to Hire Writers for Your Blog ProBlogger Job Board Courses Starting a Blog ProBlogger Pro – 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Join our Facebook group Full Transcript Expand to view full transcript Compress to smaller transcript view Hi there friends, it’s Darren Rowse from ProBlogger here. Welcome to episode 248 of the ProBlogger Podcast. My name is Darren Rowse, as I said and I am the blogger behind ProBlogger, a blog, podcast, event, job board, series of ebooks, and courses all designed to help you to start an amazing blog, to create some great content on that blog, to grow your audience, and to build profit around it. Also, you can find more about what we do at problogger.com. Now, in today’s episode, I want to talk about where to find writers for your blog, particularly where to find paid writers— those writers that you want to add your own voice and to help you to create more content for your blog on an ongoing basis. I want to share with you the five places that I found writers for free without having to advertise for them at all. These are five places that are probably under your nose right now, they may be writers already in your network and it’s about how to unearth them. And then also, I want to share some tips of how to advertise for writers as well if you can’t find them within those free places that I've talked about. You can find today’s show notes over at progblogger.com/podcast/248, where is a full transcript of today’s show as well as any links that I mentioned along the way as well. Today’s show was inspired by Richard, who’s one of our listeners who sent in this question. He writes, "I’ve been blogging for three years now, and while my blog is making enough income for me to probably go full time with my blog.

How to Apply for a Blogging Job In today’s lesson, I want to talk about finding a job as a blogger - particularly how to apply for a blogging job. Back in 2006 I noticed I started getting a lot of two types of emails: People wanting to hire bloggers would email me asking if I knew anyone suitable for a blogging job that they had. Bloggers would email asking if I knew anyone looking to hire a blogger. After months of getting these kinds of emails and manually playing matchmaker I decided it would be easier if I just created a place for people to meet one another. I started the ProBlogger job board where those looking to hire bloggers could advertise their blogging job opportunities and bloggers could apply for the jobs. While it started slow with just a new job every few days - since 2006 we’ve had well over 10,000 jobs listed! These days there’s usually 1-5 new jobs listed on the boards - with some days as many as 10 new ones going up. Late last year we redesigned the job board and added some new categories. Now you can not only advertise to find a writer but there’s the ability to find people to work as editors/proofreaders, ghostwriters, promoters/marketers, copywriters and more. I use the job board to advertise for writers on my own photography blog several times a year and we always find great candidates but every time we do it highlights to me that some people could do with some help in putting their application together. So in today's episode I want to give you some tips for applying for a blogging job. If you’re looking for work at the moment - this is the episode for you. Further Resources on How to Get a Blogging Job Job Board RSS Feed for the Job Board Facebook Group Full Transcript Expand to view full transcript Compress to smaller transcript view Hi there and welcome to episode 185 of the ProBlogger podcast. My name is Darren Rowse and I am the blogger behind problogger.com, a blog, podcast, event, job board and a series of ebooks all designed to help you as a blogger to start your blog, to grow your audience, to create great content, engage with that audience and hopefully make some money from your blog as well. You can learn more about ProBlogger and all we do over at problogger.com. Just look at the menu at the top and you’ll find all of the different things I’ve just mentioned. In today’s lesson, I want to talk about finding a job as a blogger, particularly how to apply for a blogging job. Back in 2006, I noticed I started getting two types of questions quite regularly from readers of ProBlogger. Firstly, there was one group of bloggers who wanted to hire someone to work for them. Either as a writer, an editor or in some other aspect of their business and these people would email me and go, do you know anyone who’s suitable for this type of job? The second type of email were from people looking for work. People saying I want a part time job, I’m building my blog, I need to pick up some other work. Do you know anyone wanting to hire someone like me? I realized I was good at playing the matchmaker and I used to try and match people up and look through the emails I was getting from people wanting to hire and try and match them up with a people looking to be hired but it was a bit of a clunky process. I decided it would be a lot easier if I just created a place where people could meet one another. I started the ProBlogger Job Board. This is a place where people looking to hire bloggers could advertise their jobs and people looking for work could apply for those jobs. It started in 2006, I can’t remember exactly when in the year but it started very slowly. I remember going to a few of my friend’s and saying, hey, do you want to advertise for free on it? Just to get some jobs out there and I think it launched with five or six different jobs.

Today's question comes from Dan, who asks about using Fiverr. Is it a good source for finding writers to help with his site's content? Find Fiverr at http://fiverr.com/. I prefer Upwork (http://askpat.com/upwork) or the Problogger Job Board (http://problogger.com/jobs/) for finding writers. The transcription app and website I use is Rev (http://rev.com). Do you have a question about content creation? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Thanks to our sponsor, Design Crowd. To learn more about working with their designers, go to http://designcrowd.com/askpat.

My Blogging Income Streams Today, I’m going to talk about my income streams. In episode 150 I talked about how I make money blogging and broke it down by percentages. Today I want to follow that episode up with the context. People may think that my report seems big and unattainable. People also have a tendency to compare themselves which isn’t a fair comparison because it is just a snapshot at the end of a journey. In today’s episode, I am going to walk you through the last 13 years of my life, and through the timeline of how I have added income streams over that time. Update: I've continued this mini series of posts with one more in episode 154 in which I talk more about how to grow your blogging income further. In Today’s Episode How I Diversified My Blogging Income and Became a Full Time Blogger Note: you can listen to this episode here on iTunes (look for episode PB153). November 2002 - I get an email from a friend that says, check out this blog. I liked what I saw, and I began blogging. I had no idea that you could make money from blogging. I just did it because I enjoyed it. I spent a whole year learning about blogging. I wrote a lot of content and got better as a writer. I built traffic to my site. I built engagement with my readership. Years 2 and 3 - I started experimenting with monetizing. I built a second blog where I reviewed digital cameras. The reason I began experimenting with monetizing was that my blogs were costing me money and taking up a lot of time. Google AdSense - Text based ads that I started putting on my blog. I was earning a few cents a day. Amazon Associates Program - Link to products on Amazon and I earned a few cents a week. I was mostly linking to books. I learned that if I was going to make more than a few cents a day, I needed to grow my traffic. Optimizing income streams. Optimized AdSense - more ads, change size, change position and colors. Better placements and calls to action with Amazon affiliate ads. With those 2 income streams, my income became close to full time. Now, I’m going to talk about ProBlogger and Digital Photography School Years 4 and 5 - I added a few more income streams. Direct ad sales - Advertisers were targeted my site. I knew Google took a cut, so I reached out directly to advertisers. $20 a month on first one. Other affiliate programs Promoted eBooks and products for other blogs Added other advertising networks. Yahoo and Chitika At first, I thought it would decease my AdSense, but it held study. Light bulb moment - my income will increase with adding income streams ProBlogger Book Published by Wiley ProBlogger - 6 Figure Blogging Course Years 6 and 7 - I added 3 more income streams Paid speaking Experiment with some consulting - Blog Coaching - didn’t really suit my personality Adding in the ProBlogger Job Board - small income at first, it has grown over the years and it gets 4 - 7 new jobs a day Years 7 through 11 - I really focused on building products. First one was an eBook - For Digital Photography School - It took me 4 months and I had to learn about shopping carts and everything else involved. It sold $70,000 in the first 11 days. This was a culmination of years of building engagement and putting it all together. Launched an eBook on ProBlogger A brand new income stream in a few months. Having my own products opened my eyes to a whole new world. We have since launched 35 eBooks. A membership site on ProBlogger - a closed community with webinars etc. Not a lot of engagement, and I didn’t feel like I was contributing a lot of value. May tweak this idea in the future. 2007 - First ProBlogger Event - These have a lot of expenses, but they are an income streams. Printables on Digital Photography School Years 12 and 13 - The last two years. Extending the idea of eBooks and creating products

Mike is getting his podcast up and running and wants to know how to monetize it as quickly as possible. Before I answer that question, I also suggest some other ways to make money quickly. I recommend selling services to make money quickly. You can post your skills on Craigslist (http://craigslist.org), TaskRabbit (https://www.taskrabbit.com/), the Problogger Job Board (http://jobs.problogger.net/), Elance (http://elance.com) and oDesk (http://odesk.com/). Today's sponsor is Freshbooks. Go to http://www.GetFreshBooks.com and enter "Ask Pat" for more information.